Monday, October 16, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           If you have a pink reading make-up sheet in your folder, take it home and complete the make-up reading.    All make-up so far must be turned in by October 17.   Finish and turn in your computer/Internet packets             by the end of tomorrow, October 17.                                             October 2     Learn about  Metacognition -- Brochure: Label Panels, Cover  ✓ 4     Before Reading -- CRAAP Test  --        Practice:Preview Article? 6      Internet and the CRAAP Test  (CRAAP Test Test on October 12)  10    During Reading  -- Be Active --  (predictions/inferences)  Check for Understanding 12    More Internet and CRAAP Test -- Test on the CRAAP Test   16    During Reading -- Fix-Ups   (words in context -- context clues)  begin Mind Mapping 18    After Reading -- Reduce --  (Patterns and Mind Mapping) End of Term 1 25    After Reading -- Retain  --   Mnemonics  -- Use a peg system to learn the Bill of Rights 27    After Reading -- Retain --   Mnemonics  -- Use the loci system to learn the first ten U.S. Presidents. Also  how to use flashcards  to study CRAAP, Bill of Rights, first ten presidents 31     Practice using Metacognition online  November 2       Practice using Metacognition  with an article 6     Final Test --  Turn in BICUM Brochure 8      Readathon and Test make-up, if needed               Bring treats, if you wish, to the Readathon. Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW.

Targets for Today:

Today’s  Agenda: Finish and turn in your computer/Internet packets             by the end of tomorrow, October 17.   1. Individual and Quiet Reading Time     and fill out your reading log. 2. Partner fluency practice 3. More on During Reading       a.  Inferring       b.  Fix-Up Strategies   Your Brochure: Outside  (Today we are doing the middle.) After Reading -- #2 RETAIN (Remember) Teach Someone Study in Groups Recreate in Writing Make Flash Cards Use mnemonics 1. Rhymes and Songs 2. Acronyms 3.  Acrostics 4. Mini-Stories 5. Picture Links Rehearse Continued from  DURING READING Fix-Up  Strategies  1. Check your own inner  voice. 2. Focus on it, and read it  again. 3. Try reading it out loud. 4. Try reading ahead a bit. 5.  Look for any words (or  ideas or facts) that may be  getting in your way. 6.  Ask someone who  can help you. -- or mark it  with a ? for later. 7. Add to your background knowledge!  You can do this before reading or during reading. Look it up on a reliable online site. Find a book for children on the topic. Watch a documentary or other educational program.  BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Fix-Up Strategies Words in context: A3 got through context clues brief look and quickly finished fix-ups. They did not look at the cartoon.

If You Were Absent: See above and complete the make-up work for individual reading. cave

Vocabulary:

prediction:  about what is to come

inference: about what is

Making Inferences is very similar to Making Connections and Making Predictions. In fact, predictions are a type  of inference.  When you make inferences, you use clues from the text, memories, facts, experiences, and more to "read between the lines". You're not just looking forward to guess what will happen next, but you're looking at the whole text! 

We will use an acronym to help us remember the important parts of making an inference.   KIC

• Key details/words --- clues from the text +
• what  I already knew. . . .. 
• Combine them  to come up with an inference

Let's make some inferences about this picture. Pick a detail, infer something, and explain why that detail supports your inference. 

• What can you infer about the man on the right? What details support your inference? Why?
• What can you infer about the man on the left? What details support your inference? Why?

Making inferences is a life skill, not just a reading skill! You make inferences all the time as you meet new people, decide if a movie is going to be good or not, or try to figure out what happened to that thing that you lost. 

Examples:

A character has a diaper in her hand, spit-up on her shirt, and a bottle warming on the counter. You can infer that this character is a _________________.

A character has a briefcase, is taking a ride on an airplane, and is late for a meeting. You can infer that this character is a ____________________.

A character uses words like "stat" and "emergency" and "prep" and "operation." You can infer that this person works in the ____________________.

A detective enters the house, which has been ransacked. He sees blood on the floor, and it leads out the back door. You can infer that ____________________.

When you enter a house, you see backpacks by the door, small shoes scattered near them. You see an art easel, and a room with a doll house and a toy box. You can infer that there are __________________________.

Your friend walks past you without smiling. Her head is hanging down. She wipes a tear away from her eye, and looks at her report card. You can infer that your friend _______________________________.

You walk into the room and the teacher tells you to clear your desk and get out a piece of paper and a pencil. You can infer that  ______________________.

http://softschools.com/examples/literary_terms/inference_examples/301/

What reading strategy
is this little boy using?